Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

Probably like most people on HN, I have no idea how effective permissioned blockchain will end up being.

I took the edX Blockchain for Business class last year, and was sipping the coolaid, but now I am not as optimistic. For small groups of people and organizations, a permissioned blockchain might be over engineering when a distributed and secure shared database would be fine. For very large scale applications like health care records or smart contracts involving many thousands of individuals it makes more sense, but good luck getting off the ground.

I am still experimenting with two frameworks, one written in Rust and the other Haskell, but I am starting to think I am investing too much time.

Is one of them Juno? https://github.com/kadena-io/juno. If so, I was lead eng on it so let me know if you have any questions.

FYI we're hiring haskell devs to work on our private consensus layer (based off of Juno), our public consensus protocol (http://kadena.io/docs/chainweb-v15.pdf) and our smart contract language https://github.com/kadena-io/pact + formal verification system. hiring+hn@kadena.io.

Indeed, it is the Pact language I have been playing with. Good stuff. I have also been watching your company Kadena.

I've come to this same realization, except I'm also still quite on the fence for big corp use cases. I feel like RPC APIs or REST could do as good as a enterprise blockchain with better performance.

May I ask what are the Rust and Haskell based frameworks you are looking at? I've been experimenting with Hyperledger Fabric and might try out BigchainDb.

Exonum is written in Rust and Pact (and Juno) are written in Haskell.

I was very enthusiastic last fall about setting up, on a very small scale, what my friend Ben Goertzel did with SingularityNet.io. I set up a placeholder web site http://hyperledgerai.com/ but have been too busy with my day job to put enough effort into it.

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